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Panama is a bit of a special case as it's considered to be a fiscal paradise by most countries. I have a card from Malaysia (which is a developing nation albeit
by nicolas_t 10y ago
Panama is a bit of a special case as it's considered to be a fiscal paradise by most countries. I have a card from Malaysia (which is a developing nation albeit relatively rich compared to its neighbours) and I can use it pretty much anywhere.
The only issue I really sometimes have is that my bank will sometimes block transactions which they find suspicious and call me to confirm that it was me who did the transaction. That card does support 3d secure though so usually if the merchant supports 3d secure then the card works perfectly and has no issues.
- eloff 10y agoI think it has less to do with fiscal paradise, since that's probably not overly correlated with fraud, but rather the fact that it's a country of 3.5 million people. That means there's little to no incentive to support transactions from Panama - so it tends to be blocked by default along with most other countries you're not likely to get sales from.